The Inoculation of Lady Sybil

Doctors that were against this were physicians. Charles maitland, who was mary's surgeon, was actually considered a lower class of doctor. And then surgeons were like these former butchers, you know, they just deal with all the blood and stuff. They don't know anything about medicine. So that was another complaint that was being thrown out into this controversy. Ok, another dounton abbey reference. Do you remember when lady sybil was in such distress, and the local doctor insisted that she must beremoved to the surgery and get a sea section? But the eminent noble physician to the royals said, oh no, no. We don't need to do that